Participants: Pr. John Lomacang
Series Code: AOT
Program Code: AOT000010
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00:12 Welcome to Anchors Of Truth
00:15 live from the 3ABN Worship Center, 00:17 the Unclean Spirit series with John Lomacang. 00:22 The Book of Revelation has two very telling texts, 00:26 both found in Revelation chapter 12; 00:29 Revelation chapter 12 verse 12 tells us that 00:33 the devil knows that he has a short time. 00:37 And so, he has come down to 00:39 this earth with great wrath. Amen. 00:43 And then just several verses later in 12:17, 00:46 the Church is given warning because he 00:51 has extended that wrath to the, 00:55 the seed of the woman to the remnant. 00:58 They are a particular object of his fury 01:01 and his ways, so people will that keep the 01:04 commandments of God and have the testimony 01:06 of Jesus Christ. And so, there is a, a, 01:10 a whammy for the world and a double whammy 01:13 for the people of God. Now, it occurs to me that 01:15 this is an international ministry and someone on 01:18 the other side of the earth is scratching their 01:20 ahead and saying, what is a whammy? 01:22 Because that is such an American term, 01:24 but a whammy is like a wall or a hit or a blow 01:27 that Satan is giving the earth his, his best blows, 01:33 but he's saving his real intense stuff for the 01:36 children of God. And so, we as people of God 01:39 must be doubly alert, doubly aware on guard 01:45 always for every attack of the enemy because as 01:48 Pastor Lomacang and I were talking the devil is 01:51 many things, but he's not stupid and he is, 01:54 he is a tireless worker. And he uses every avenue, 01:59 every means possible to, to infiltrate and seize 02:05 the minds and the hearts of the people of the world 02:07 and of the people of God. And someone will saying 02:09 before I feel so sad when I hear about all 02:11 of these young, beautiful musicians talented 02:14 people who are in league with the devil, 02:17 do they know, do they not know? I think 02:19 sometimes they don't know, but many times 02:21 they do know. Many times they're aware and 02:24 there are people are walking on earth this day 02:26 who would sell their soul for fame and fortune. 02:29 And then when they get the fame and fortune 02:30 they quickly realize that's not enough 02:32 because you keep going and keep going 02:34 and keep going and keep going, 02:36 years ago as a child I remember hearing 02:38 Mick Jagger say back in the 60s, 40 years ago. 02:42 I don't wanna be 55 and sing and I can't 02:45 get no satisfaction. And what is he 45 years 02:48 later he is 60 singing I Can't Get No Satisfaction. 02:52 Because it's, it's, it's an endless stream 02:55 you go on and go on and go on and go on 02:57 and it's a treadmill you simply can not get off of, 03:00 and the devil has you, he takes you further 03:03 than you want to go and keeps you longer 03:05 than you intend to stay and knew for 03:07 your nurture or old and gone and used 03:09 and Satan laughs. And one more person is 03:12 lost to the kingdom of God. And so, I'm very 03:15 pleased to welcome you to this last session 03:18 and I say please, I say that with mixed emotion 03:21 because this is the final seating and what has 03:23 been a fabulous presentation by 03:26 our Pastor, our friend John Lomacang, 03:28 who has dwelt deeply into these subjects? 03:31 I have certainly learn and I suspect you have 03:33 also some of the ways that Satan has 03:35 insinuated himself, not only in through 03:37 into the world, but even into the Church 03:40 and into the lives, into the homes, into the 03:42 DVD list and record albums of those who claim, 03:45 claim the name of Jesus. Some of us have some 03:48 cleaning out to do, amen. As we go back to our 03:52 homes and look at some of these things that 03:54 simply should not be there, so I am again pleased 03:57 and happy that you're here. And our local 03:59 audience and those of you around the world 04:02 who are listening to this really primer, 04:07 this class in, in some other things that 04:09 Satan is, is using to, to destroy the people 04:12 of God. We must be bought up our Father's 04:15 business and time is far spent. 04:18 We have just enough time to grab a hole 04:20 again to the hand of Jesus. 04:22 Welcome, my name is C.A. Murray 04:24 and I do welcome you. And ask that you not 04:27 sit back and relax. This is not sit back 04:29 and relax time, this is time to sit up and take 04:32 note because good information is coming 04:35 vitally information. There was a time when 04:37 they used to say, what you don't know won't 04:39 hurt you? That was never true and it was 04:42 certainly not true in these last days what 04:44 you don't know can kill you. So, you do need 04:47 to be aware as Christ gives us knowledge. 04:49 Before Pastor Lomacang comes 04:51 for his final presentation, would you bow your 04:52 heads with me in a word of prayer? 04:54 Gracious Father, we do praise you and thank you 04:58 for your word. Again, it is a lamp unto our feet 05:01 and a light unto our path. Father, help us 05:05 to walk in the light as children of the light, 05:10 amen, so that we can see the face of Jesus, 05:13 and walk wherever He leads us. 05:15 Be with Pastor John again this afternoon, 05:19 You have given him much embolden him and 05:23 enable him and anoint him to give that what 05:27 You've given to him to us, so that we might be 05:31 better citizens of this world as we prepare 05:34 for the higher citizenship, 05:36 which is in the world to come. 05:38 We thank you in Jesus name, amen, amen. 05:44 Thank you Pastor. Thank you Pastor C.A. 05:52 and little warm up here on the monitors. 05:57 Okay, that's alright we were down some 06:01 on the monitors. We were having some 06:04 problem with the microphones, 06:06 but that's alright, don't let the devil 06:07 distract you, amen. Amen, amen. 06:09 Good afternoon everyone? Can you hear me? 06:12 Good afternoon. Alright, I think I'm there now. 06:16 Am I out there? Okay, I'll use this until I get 06:23 that one. Can you hear me everyone? Amen. 06:26 Praise the Lord you know, the devil tries to stop 06:28 God's progress, but that's okay. 06:30 Let's not even give him too much attention 06:33 'cause I need all the time to talk about the Lord. 06:35 Amen. Thank you for tuning in again this is 06:37 our last presentation entitled Born Again. 06:41 I, I preview that by saying that born again 06:46 doesn't have the same meaning every place 06:48 that word is used, but because of the interest 06:51 of getting through the entire presentation, 06:53 just want to encourage you to continue to pray 06:56 and ask for the Lord to speak to us at the point 07:00 of our need, let's bow our heads. 07:03 Our gracious Father in heaven we thank You 07:04 for Your goodness, for Your mercy, 07:06 for Your grace for the message that has not 07:09 only open the eyes of so many others, 07:11 but has opened mind and eyes. 07:12 And I pray that Lord because You've given 07:15 me site that I would not only see what's happening, 07:18 but I would look to Jesus, the author and finisher 07:21 of my faith. Amen. Direct me now as I 07:25 put into place the last pieces of this puzzle 07:29 this afternoon and may you receive the glory 07:31 as the information is disseminated to lead those 07:35 who are held captive to the place where 07:37 they can find freedom, in Jesus name I pray, amen. 07:42 Now, I usually begin the presentation with 07:45 a Bible verse, I'm gonna wait till a little further 07:48 down to share that Bible verse and communicate 07:52 the message that, but as you look at the topic 07:56 Satan has really ramped up his arsenal of deception 08:00 artists that are singing some of the most vial 08:04 and degrading songs talk highly about God. 08:08 You know, when you watch the award shows 08:11 when they receive their award they say, 08:13 I want to thank God for this award and right away 08:15 we think that they're talking about the same 08:18 God that we serve, Satan has found away 08:22 to so closely resemble Christianity that when 08:25 they say God, we think that they mean the same 08:28 God that we worship. Then there are those 08:31 that pray before their conscious and when we 08:33 hear about that we feel justified and 08:35 listening to their music, we say to people, 08:37 did you hear that so and so praise before 08:39 his or her concert? But what they do on stage 08:42 is completely opposite, if they're praying to God. 08:45 Then there are those that get drawn into 08:49 support popular icons because they do 08:52 humanitarian things and adopt children 08:54 and give money to needy foundations and 08:55 shower their audience with gifts and tell the 08:58 world that they are vegan. Many of the musicians 09:03 that are singing, playing and performing started 09:08 out in Church. I know some of them personally, 09:12 but the question is how did they get there? 09:15 The obvious answer is they didn't keep their 09:18 eyes on God. Amen. But the question then 09:21 again is why? And as we look at God's word today 09:28 we begin to see that Satan has found a way 09:34 to get to those who are not constantly on guard, 09:38 that's why we have to be on guard all the time, 09:41 what do you say? Amen. The word of God says 09:44 in this way, Paul the Apostle points out 09:46 how Satan masterfully deceives those who are 09:50 not on guard. Romans 16 and verse 8 he says: 09:54 For those who are such, look at the scripture, 09:58 they do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, 10:02 but who to they serve? Their own belly; 10:06 and by smooth words and flattering speech 10:10 deceive the hearts of the simple. 10:13 There are many of us that would want to 10:14 think the best about artists that are out 10:15 there and I understand that because you know 10:17 people are people and we always try to accent 10:20 and highlight the best in the individuals. 10:22 But anyone can use Christian tools, 10:26 but can everyone live the Christian life? 10:29 Anyone can pray, but who are they praying 10:33 to is the real question, anyone can make the 10:36 sounds that sheep make, but does the 10:40 shepherd know them also. So, don't get to see 10:44 by those that use the name of God. Amen. 10:47 Don't get sidetrack by the things people do to 10:50 impress you, don't get misled because people 10:54 say there are vegans by the way in the 10:56 new age movement and the occult moment 10:58 veganism is high on their list. 11:01 It's good to be vegan, amen somebody. Amen. 11:05 But that is not that line of test as to whether 11:09 or not a person is connected to God. 11:11 The occult movement knows what to do to 11:14 gain access to those who are well meaning 11:17 Christians? They design it, so that we think 11:21 that they and we are on the same page. 11:24 That's why I titled the message born again. 11:27 Notice what John chapter 3 verse 5 to 7 says, 11:30 John chapter 3 verse 5 to 7, notice what it says: 11:34 Jesus answered, and this is what He's saying 11:37 and you got to notice the two parallels 11:38 in this text. Jesus answered, 11:40 "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is 11:44 born of the what? Water. Water and 11:46 of the, Spirit, Spirit, he cannot enter the 11:50 kingdom of God. There are lots of kingdoms, 11:53 but is it the kingdom of God. 11:55 There is the magic kingdom. 11:59 Whole lot of kingdoms in the world, 12:01 but is it the kingdom connect to God. 12:03 The Lord says: That which is born of the 12:06 flesh is what? Flesh, and that which is born 12:09 of the Spirit is what? Spirit. Do not marvel 12:13 that I said to you, "You must be born again." 12:16 Now, I don't know if you caught that, 12:18 but there are those that are born of the flesh. 12:20 I'm not just talking about the first natural birth, 12:23 but there are those who are reborn into a deeper 12:26 darker avenue of things that are carnal, 12:30 they even proclaim that. I remember listening 12:33 to a documentary and our and, and they included 12:36 in this documentary a statement from a very 12:38 famous person in the music industry by the 12:40 name of Kanye West and he, he lamented 12:43 and talked about how he sold his soul to the devil? 12:46 He said, I know that's a terrible deal, 12:48 but at least he gave me some toys, 12:50 so I can enjoy myself along the way. 12:52 Now, can you imagine going to hell with toys 12:54 in your hand? At least he gave me some toys, 12:58 so I can enjoy myself along the way. 13:00 The art of deception and there are those 13:02 individuals that look at the cars, 13:04 that's why when you look at this phrase bling, 13:06 you heard that before, the bling they want to, 13:09 they want to go ahead and mesmerize the 13:11 young people with the bling. 13:13 So, they're with the largest chains. 13:14 Have you, have you seen those chains? 13:16 The reason, now let me just put this together, 13:20 so please don't take this to wrong way. 13:26 But if there's anybody in society that should 13:28 not be desires of wing, big heavy chains around 13:30 their neck is African-Americans. 13:35 It's like they're enslaving themselves 13:38 intentionally, being bond and being a slave 13:44 is one thing, but binding yourself and becoming 13:47 a slave voluntarily and something altogether 13:49 different, amen. Amen. Satan has found away 13:53 to get into their minds, so that they can make 13:55 themselves salves voluntarily. And must, 14:00 most of the Christian, well lot of Christians 14:02 nowadays that's why you see in the music industry. 14:04 The music industry has been and even the occult 14:07 industry has been, the avenue by which you seen 14:12 in many Christian book stores all of a sudden 14:14 I don't remember how many years ago was, 14:16 but there was a particular point where 14:18 all of a sudden Christian book stores started 14:20 selling Christian jewelery and I thought to myself 14:24 what's that? Is are like, is like, is are like 14:26 Christian rock or Christian pornography, 14:30 Christian jewelery that who don't even go on 14:33 the same arena according to God's word? 14:35 And so, now you can go to Christian book stores 14:39 and you can buy the crystals, you can buy 14:41 the paraphernalia that is very high, if you go 14:44 to a new age store or the occult stores 14:47 or those stores that is sold the gossip, 14:49 you can buy the same image is there that 14:52 you can buy in many Christian book stores. 14:54 Satan has found a clever way to get in. 14:57 So, when they say that they are born again? 14:59 It doesn't mean they are born again from above, 15:01 but they have committed themselves even after 15:04 they are born in sin and shapen in iniquity. 15:06 They further committed themselves to a darker 15:09 and deeper satanic world then they initially 15:12 were in. Notice some pictures and they use 15:14 the same phrases; look at this picture by the way. 15:17 This person he is dead now, God you know, 15:20 God rest his soul from he lived about a mile 15:23 and a half of from while live in Brooklyn, 15:25 New York, his name is Notorious B.I.G, 15:27 notice the title on his CD, it is what? 15:30 Born again, let me tell you something, 15:33 that CD is about anything, but being 15:35 born again from above. If you look 15:38 at the titles on that CD is not about being 15:41 born of the Spirit or born of the water, 15:44 is about being born of the flesh, recommitting 15:47 one person to the flesh. Look at the next slide 15:49 it talks about he, he did a toured, he went 15:51 from place-to-place and there he's standing 15:53 by a hearse or whatever you call motorcar 15:56 whatever there thing is? Yeah, hearse 15:59 and on the back of that life after death, 16:02 he was on a, a toured that he traveled around 16:04 and this tour was entitled Life After Death. 16:07 Well, the question is, did he died to sin 16:10 or in sin? Amen. Well, I don't know, 16:16 but he's dead, he got, he got mowed down in 16:18 Las Vegas gang style, was he died in sin 16:22 or to sin that's for God to decide. 16:24 I don't want even propose to be a judge, 16:26 but if I would go by somebody's fruits 16:28 I say I, I tell you it doesn't look very good. 16:31 There's another group and by the way 16:34 the name of this group is something that really 16:35 amazes me is called Bone, Thugs & Harmony. 16:39 Now, that name alone should be reasoning up, 16:42 you shouldn't buy that CD, amen. 16:44 Bone Thugs & Harmony, but I want you to 16:46 catch this picture, they are way in a background 16:48 and they're standing in a cemetery and there 16:50 you see a picture of a cross. 16:52 The next CD makes it very, very clear what 16:54 they mean by that cross, notice this BTNH Bone, 16:57 Thugs & Harmony Resurrection. 17:00 That mean they to have died to who they used 17:03 to be before they made a commitment 17:04 to the devil, now they're born again 17:06 into a satanic industry and they're living 17:09 their lives for the glory of the dark Lord 17:12 of the underworld. They have a CD they, 17:15 they put out on the back of that very same, 17:17 one of their CDs called eternity. 17:19 On the back of that CD they wrote a song, 17:22 where they wrote the lyrics backward 17:23 and the reason I didn't put that on the screen 17:25 is because the lyrics were written backward 17:27 in order that it may enslave people without 17:30 their knowledge because in the occult world, 17:34 in the world of Voodoo and, and where people are, 17:37 are having spells cast on them. 17:40 What they do is, if somebody wants to 17:42 catch to spell on you and they know you're 17:44 Christian, all they do is they write you a letter 17:46 with the spell in the letter, but they write 17:49 it backwards. So, in order for you to read it, 17:52 you've to hold it up against a mirror and 17:54 while you're standing in front of the mirror 17:56 guess what's happening? In the occult way 17:59 you are reading that spell right into you, 18:02 you are casting the spell or the curse right 18:05 on you. And they said, in the occult 18:07 world they said, we cannot cast spells 18:09 on Christians, but Christians can cast them 18:11 on themselves. Two ways, one by reading 18:15 the spell in reverse, secondly and this is 18:17 something that's diabolical; I wish I had 18:18 time to develop this. In the music industry 18:21 there is a place where before they master 18:23 their CDs. According to a, a man by the 18:25 name of John Todd he used to be a foremost 18:28 occultist, he says that he was born again 18:30 even though, even after he was born again, 18:32 he still had a difficult time getting out of 18:34 the world that he had been for many, 18:35 many years, but he said, being a part of the 18:37 music industry many of the music moguls 18:40 before they master the CDs that are secular CDs 18:43 for these artists that have committed 18:45 themselves to the devil, they take these CDs 18:47 into to coven chamber that's a part of many of 18:50 the popular music studios, and they gather 18:52 thirteen witches and wall locks together 18:55 and before they master that and start to 18:56 duplicate that they pray that wherever 18:59 this CD goes, a Spirit or a demon will follow 19:03 it into the home of that person that owns that CD. 19:05 So, you may not even say I even worship, 19:09 you may say, I don't even worship the devil 19:10 I just had the CD, if you have the CD he's there 19:13 with it, just like we pray when we take and give 19:17 out tracks, Lord make sure that this track finds 19:20 somebody and there are people that picked up 19:22 tracks on the ground, there's somebody else 19:24 is thrown away and they have become Christians 19:27 as a result of that because we pray for 19:29 the Holy Spirit to go with that track. 19:32 They pray for demonic Spirits to go 19:34 for that track. Here's another picture of a young 19:37 man that you may have heard about, 19:38 his name is Snoop Dog, notice at the bottom 19:41 Murder was the Case, but I want to point 19:43 something out, he is not dead he is still alive. 19:45 However, they're something there, 19:48 praise the Lord, they're something 19:49 there that goes as follows it says, 19:51 Calvin Broadus born 1972, died 1994. 19:56 He's still alive, well you know, what he meant? 19:59 He meant died to who he used to be. 20:01 Now, he's darker than ever before, 20:05 his music is dark and satanic, 20:07 he even has a video where he mimics his death. 20:10 And a, and a dove something flies 20:13 into the music video and he's laying there 20:15 in his coffin and the dove turns into Jesus Christ 20:18 and then almost instantaneously 20:19 in a few moments turns into Satan himself 20:22 as the God he represents, but he put born again 20:25 and died again, so when they say they're born 20:27 again it doesn't mean they're born from above, 20:29 it means they're born from beneath. 20:31 And this, the reason why I am so passionate 20:33 about this? Is this is what's gripping the minds 20:36 of many Christian young people? 20:39 And we're finding reasons to excuse it, 20:42 oh! They'll grow out of it. You don't grow out of 20:45 things that are natural to you. The natural man 20:49 does not what they receive the things of God 20:51 for they are foolishness to him, you got to leave 20:55 them and guide them, but Satan found away 20:58 and by the way many of us don't know that, 20:59 but when you decide to follow Satan, 21:01 you've got a relinquish who you are to follow him, 21:04 you have to sort of speak cross the abyss. 21:07 So, many of these artists that show 21:09 you these pictures, here's another thing 21:10 that many people don't understand, 21:12 here's a picture of Beyonce when she was young. 21:14 Notice, she was her eye cover that very left eye 21:17 we always talk about, but she has a butterfly, 21:19 a monarch butterfly covering her eye. 21:21 Now, let me just develop this very quickly 21:23 and I have so much to cover, I have to speak 21:25 very quickly, so you listen carefully 21:27 and if you miss it contact 3ABN to get copies 21:30 of the DVD, I know they'll make that 21:31 available eventually, but in the occult world 21:35 through a project called project monarch. 21:38 You may have heard a man by the name of 21:39 Mengele he was called The Angel of Death, 21:42 very notorious person. However, through this 21:45 monarch project, monarch being a 21:48 very soft and beautiful butterfly. 21:51 Mengele was known and his anger to just take 21:53 the butterfly and crush it in his hand. 21:55 What they did? Is they look for people that were 21:58 vulnerable and they conditioned them to go 22:00 through a process, when they first come to 22:02 the music industry they are just a caterpillar 22:05 that crawling on their belly, they haven't 22:08 gotten to the place where they sing 22:10 I believe I can fly, butterfly code for, 22:17 hey I'm on the other side now, they haven't gotten 22:20 to that point yet. So until they become famous 22:22 and believe they can fly they got a crawl on 22:24 their belly as a caterpillar that stage one, 22:26 but they have to go into incubation, 22:28 what's that phrase they used? 22:30 Anyway I just called it incubation, 22:32 the period between caterpillar and butterfly, 22:35 they're going to the cocoon, there's a point 22:36 where you don't know what happen, 22:37 whatever happen is so and so, then all of 22:39 a sudden boom they breakout upcoming tour, 22:42 his coming out of tour like Michael Jackson 22:44 when he started with the moon walk. 22:46 They come out and they're now in the 22:48 butterfly stage, they've come out now on the 22:51 other side because they could spread 22:53 their wings, they've been designed to be 22:55 attractive in the world is ready and waiting 22:57 for them and they now can get off the ground 23:00 as I could use the phraseology. 23:02 Here's another one a Mariah Carey in this 23:05 particular industry, I've blurred that out 23:06 because she know she had a midriff top there, 23:08 but if you notice the name of her album is 23:10 called Butterfly, very, very small in the upper 23:12 left hand corner. And then she also had a 23:14 perfume line, the very first of a kind with the 23:17 butterfly on the top of the glass associating 23:20 it to her and those in the occult world know 23:22 exactly what she's saying, butterfly. 23:25 I'm a butterfly; I'm on the other side now. 23:27 Here's another one with Britney Spears 23:29 on her album butterfly and I want to use 23:32 it to few, they're many, many, many, many 23:34 more where you find these symbols, 23:36 it's a common symbol. A lot of young girls buy 23:38 that nowadays 'cause they think butterfly 23:39 is a cute, they butterfly tattoos and all that 23:42 because that's where it comes from. 23:43 Here's one more Michael Jackson I talked 23:45 about this, if you could see on his right shoulder, 23:48 actually his left shoulder, but to the right of 23:50 the screen there's a butterfly I brightened 23:53 it up is kind of yellow, that's not the natural 23:55 color of a monarch butterfly just brightened 23:57 it up. He showed on that album cover in his 23:59 early stages that he was coming out. 24:01 I'm on the other side now the butterfly, 24:04 so when they talk about being born again is either 24:07 through the dark hip hop, profane rap music of 24:11 the first group I showed you or the innocent, 24:14 very attractive music that comes from these 24:16 other artists that I just mentioned. 24:18 Aleister Crowley developed teachings 24:20 in his thelemic philosophy that drew 24:22 lessons from Christian principles, 24:24 but at the same time he distorted them. 24:27 For example, when we are born again 24:29 we chose what path, the right or the left, 24:32 we chose the right path I hope we do, 24:34 but they choose the left path. 24:39 The right path we die to sin under the control 24:43 of the Holy Spirit, the left path they, 24:45 they live in sin under the control of demonic 24:49 Spirits. And by the way, in the thelemic religion 24:51 all of their saints as they refer to them are 24:55 mythological demons that are from ancient Egypt, 24:59 Egyptian mythology, Asians Egyptian Spirits 25:03 often referred to as Nephilim spirits. 25:06 In other words, the older the Spirit the more 25:08 power they say you can have because that 25:10 Spirit has been around a long time and it's used 25:12 the different a platter of different means to 25:15 accomplish success for somebody, 25:17 it's in the music industry that's why the 25:20 Baphomet symbol of a satanic symbol finds 25:22 it's destiny there. In the Baphomet symbol by 25:24 the way, now look at this picture here you'll see 25:27 that this is, I couldn't developed this very much 25:29 I wish I had another time to do this, 25:31 but I want to point this out you notice 25:32 that Baphomet images in the center that's the 25:35 demonic dual gender image of Satan with the 25:40 horns on the top, that's where everybody get 25:42 the horns from. You notice his hand is in two 25:44 different directions, one is pointing up, 25:46 one is pointing down, he is by, he is thereby 25:48 saying, I am the Lord of the heavens 25:51 and of the earth. The Lord of the sun and 25:54 the moon, but you notice the two columns 25:57 indicating left and right, both paths in the occult 26:01 world they say are the same paths. 26:03 Some occult say they are different paths, 26:05 the left path is the black magic, the right 26:07 path is the white magic. Let me tell you magic 26:09 is magic which ever way you go, but they say, 26:12 those who are on the black magic path 26:15 or those who never successfully crossed over 26:18 and had a direct relationship with Corazon, 26:21 this demon of the abyss. So, they never really 26:23 made it to what they call the master stage 26:27 of the magician. And I hate to say this, 26:31 but when you can't if, if you can't make the 26:33 journey they have a terminology in occultism 26:37 they call him the black brother, not nationally 26:41 speaking, but they, they label him that way 26:43 as one who had failed, but the question is, 26:49 how do you know which path you are on? 26:52 You've got a simply look at the components 26:55 of your life and the things that it spouses 26:57 that will identify the path that you've chosen. 27:00 Just look at the things you listen to, 27:01 look at the things you watch, look at all 27:03 the things that are becoming proponents 27:06 and pushed by the music industry, look at this. 27:08 They exalt murder, sensuality, sexuality, 27:14 degradation and abuse of women, profanity, 27:19 promiscuity, money mongering, possessions, 27:24 assault on the body temple by tattooing 27:28 and body piercing. Have you noticed 27:30 how many people are getting tattooed 27:32 nowadays? As I somebody, some people 27:35 you don't even identify. And what people feel 27:38 it realizes maybe a butterfly when 27:40 you're young, but when you get old 27:41 and skin starts stretching it looks like an eagle. 27:45 They don't think about time takes a 27:48 different course. The music industry has 27:53 adapted these themes from a number of sources. 27:56 And I'm gonna tell you this, none of those sources 27:58 that they have gone to are godly sources, 28:00 they've just taken where God has produced 28:03 and fashioned it, so that it could appear 28:05 to be Christian. And that's why you ask the 28:08 questions, what makes the person go 28:10 uncontrollably in a certain direction. 28:12 How do people throw away so much for something 28:15 that if weight on the scales of importance 28:17 false far short of lasting value. 28:20 What makes a person respond to something 28:24 that is against their morals? 28:26 How does that internal switch flip so 28:30 instantaneously when we hear a song 28:33 or see a show or glimpse another person 28:36 or smell a certain aroma it's called triggers? 28:40 Now, let me spend a little time on this. 28:42 I think I'll get through it, but I got to spend 28:45 sometime on triggers. Now, many of you have 28:47 computers almost everybody owns a computer 28:49 nowadays, if not you've a cellphone. 28:51 Now, the reason why the number one comes up 28:52 when you press the number one is 28:53 because it's been programmed that way. 28:58 In the, in the entertainment industry 29:01 has a person who just gets into the industry 29:04 is being primed they are lined up with a 29:07 program in, in a job market they'll say, 29:11 well this person is gonna train you for 29:13 your position. In the music industry this 29:15 program is yours, this person is your shadow. 29:19 In another words they're gonna guard you, 29:20 they're gonna protect you they're make sure 29:21 everything goes fine, but they don't tell you 29:23 as this person is your programer, 29:25 you may notice that this young man by the 29:27 name of Justin Bieber, everywhere he goes 29:29 Usher is with him, he even calls out his name. 29:31 I want to thank Usher you know, who helped me out 29:34 and they always give the person props. 29:36 In the very same way in the music industry 29:38 and the movie industry there are people that 29:40 are your mentors that's another word they used, 29:43 but the real reason for them as 29:44 they're programming you they're making sure 29:46 that by the time you can fly, by the time 29:49 you turn to a butterfly you can be trusted. 29:52 In another words you are so converted 29:54 to our way of doing things that now we can 29:56 let you go and we are not fearful that 29:59 you'll go out and bring degradation and 30:02 shame to us. We can trust you now 30:04 and as a result the person who's finally 30:06 fully programmed, fully trained is now set 30:10 free to become a programer of someone 30:13 else. So, it's like that commercial years ago, 30:15 remember that? You tell two friends and they 30:17 tell two friends and so on and so on and so, 30:19 remember that? Television screen 30:21 all of the sudden has 36 pictures where 30:22 he only started with one, that's exactly what 30:25 Satan does, it's the biggest marketing, 30:27 but a satanically driven and as methodologically 30:29 thought out, but look at the text. 30:32 The devil has taken from God something that 30:35 we should be doing. Proverbs 22 verse 6, 30:38 it says: Train up a child in the way what? 30:41 He should go, and when he is old he will not do, 30:45 what? He will not depart from it. 30:47 Just last night I was thinking about this industry 30:49 and I actually got sad you know, why? 30:51 Because I look at the pictures of some of these 30:53 young people as they started out, 30:54 I think of this young girl by the name of Aliyah, 30:56 she is dead now she died unfortunately in a plane 30:59 crash when she was flying back from Miami 31:01 after she did a shoot down there for music video, 31:03 but the sad reality this young beautiful girl 31:08 at the apex of her life lost her life while living 31:12 on the wrong side, whether she saved 31:16 the lost is not what I'm saying, that's not 31:18 what I'm saying? But the last movie she did 31:20 was entitled Queen of the Damned, Mother 31:22 of All Vampires. Right after that not too longer 31:25 after that she lost her life in a plane crash 31:27 to a guy who was living his life in the wrong 31:31 avenue, didn't keep his plane up, he had many 31:33 violations that he discovered after all, 31:37 almost of all her crew that was down in 31:39 I think it was the Bahamas wherever they were, 31:41 they died because they wanted to rush 31:42 and get back to Miami over loaded the plane, 31:45 however it happened she lost her life. 31:46 Another young lady by the name of Lisa Lopes 31:50 they called her left eye Lopes, left eye why? 31:53 Because she did always signaling the fact that 31:55 she was applied to that Illuminati, 31:56 that Illuminati connection to the mason movement, 31:59 she died also she always claimed that she was 32:02 fighting personal demons, that's what happens. 32:05 When you commit yourself to that market? 32:07 These demons don't leave you alone, 32:09 they don't say, well I see you in the morning, 32:11 no they, they are demons of the night 32:13 that's why Paul the Apostle says, we are 32:16 children of the day and not of the night. 32:18 What do you say? Amen. But in this music 32:20 industry they developed everything that you 32:22 can be a child of the night, that's why they 32:24 wake up at night. My father was in 32:26 that industry, industry for more than 60 years, 32:28 when I'm going to bed he's waken up, 32:30 when I waken up, he's going to bed, 32:32 children of the night. Another guy by the 32:36 name of Tupac Shakur you may have heard 32:38 about his name before, pretty notorious 32:40 young man. People that knew him personally 32:42 they said he was a nice young man, 32:43 but he didn't live and espouse those things 32:46 that exalt God. He once again got gunned down, 32:49 gang rivalries, rap artist rivalries. 32:53 What kind of industry would you want to be 32:55 in if the person that you're working for his 32:57 record label is called death row records? 33:02 Doesn't that tell you, you want to run to Jesus. 33:05 Amen. I like to sign you up on death row records. 33:09 Where are you headed? To death row. 33:13 I mean come on now how, how numb can you get? 33:20 But what we don't realize and the reason 33:22 I'm so passionate about this is our children 33:24 are being programmed; our children are being 33:27 programed by the programmers. 33:30 They get past the programming stage, 33:32 they become strong disciples to Satan and then 33:36 we buy their music and they program our children 33:39 through their lyrics, through their fanciful 33:41 dress, through their idol customs. 33:44 You notice, whenever you see them 33:45 oh! Everybody wants to see what hairstyle 33:47 Lady Gaga is gonna have next. 33:50 Well, who cares, but there is some that 33:54 really care, there is some that I want to idolize 33:56 what they dress and how they dressed? 33:58 And you'll notice that when young people 33:59 start dressing a certain way you can almost 34:01 certainly trace it to the people they idolize. 34:05 People that are into the rock music industry 34:07 like the Gothic look, 'cause that's that 34:11 kind of dress. People that are into their 34:13 hip hop industry Lord have mercy; 34:15 they wear those really, really high heels, 34:17 the short, short tight skirts. 34:18 And I'm, as I'm just telling like it is, 34:20 could I tell you like it is? And they, and they 34:23 just don't have the appearances as Paul says, 34:27 like women professing godliness. 34:35 I did a, I did a men's ministries series of 34:39 meetings down in Miami, Florida and the young 34:40 man even the man of the Church complaint 34:42 about that, what are we do pastor, 34:44 what are we do? I say, well now I think 34:45 that should be handled by the ladyship of 34:48 the Church. How you dress outside the Church 34:50 is one thing, but how you come to present 34:52 yourself as you work for the Lord and the Church 34:53 should be some stand as the Church has, 34:56 but I don't want to spend lot of time on that. 34:59 The problem is we're becoming more and 35:02 more of what we are going to become? 35:05 Paul says in Galatians 6, 7: Do not be deceived, 35:10 God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, 35:14 say the rest with me, that he will also reap. 35:17 You cannot plant the seeds of destruction 35:22 and expect to get the seeds of righteousness. 35:26 You cannot plant rebellion and expect 35:29 to be obedient. Now, if you listen to records 35:32 what people are saying, you know they're 35:35 defying authority every which way, 35:37 they're cursing about their parents, 35:39 telling you how to ignore authority. 35:42 And you listen to that and your mother said, 35:44 clean up your room. You look at your mother say, 35:47 you clean it up. I remember when my wife and I, 35:51 we don't have children when we're raising 35:52 our nieces, every now and then we do a, 35:54 we do an unscheduled, unannounced inspection. 35:58 Amen. What's in that closet, what's under that, 36:00 what's in that book bag? That's right and some 36:02 of you parents act like you wanna be your 36:04 children's friends. God has given you, 36:07 if you're watching God has given you the 36:08 responsibility to raise your child for the 36:13 glory of God, not just because you want them 36:16 to like you. I like, one of our good friends, 36:18 I don't want to tell the name you all know who, 36:20 who, who she is? She said, when the daughter 36:22 got all beside herself she said, let me tell 36:23 you some I am not your friend, I'm your mother. 36:29 And some parents stand back and let them do 36:31 what they want to do because they want to 36:32 be liked so, you know, what if, what if I offend 36:34 them and they leave. Well, they may leave, 36:37 but you're still their mother. 36:41 Oh! I'm so afraid you know what? 36:43 I heard a story my mother-in-law was told 36:44 me this about a mother who did not raise his 36:46 son to be right. And he ended up killing somebody 36:48 and going to jail and his mother was that kind 36:50 of mother didn't want to offend him and, 36:51 and when he was in jail his mother went to see him 36:54 and he called her he said, come closer, come 36:56 I want to tell you, I want to tell you whisper 36:57 something in your ear. Come closer and she got 36:59 closer enough to the jail cell that he grabbed 37:02 her ear and tried to rip it off by biting it off. 37:04 And she said, what on earth is wrong with 37:06 you he said, see that's for not telling me 37:08 what I should have done when I was a young boy, 37:09 that's for not telling you what I said to her 37:11 when I was a young boy. Some of us think that 37:12 young people want this garbage in their Churches 37:14 and in their schools. There are some young people 37:16 I believe that want Jesus in their lives. 37:19 And in our institutions they ought to stand up, 37:22 if you're a pastor or a President of a, 37:24 of a university or college establish standards. 37:27 The Bible says: When the devil, when the enemy 37:29 comes in like a flood, we should lift up a 37:32 standard against him. Amen. Stop apologizing, 37:36 the world ain't not apologizing, why are 37:38 we apologize, we're the children of God. 37:40 When God sent them out to fight against the 37:42 enemy of darkness he didn't say now don't hit 37:44 them too hard. He said, kill them all, 37:46 wipe them out, so that the people of God 37:49 will not be polluted by that garbage. 37:51 And here we are nowadays; well you know 37:53 they pay tuition, so we can't tell them 37:55 what to do? I like Oral Roberts University, 37:57 I don't know where Adventists do, 37:58 but Oral Roberts University they had 37:59 standards there, they said, if you don't dress 38:02 a certain way and get in shape by such and 38:05 such a time you're out of our university, 38:07 we ought to adopt standards like that saying, 38:10 now here are our standards for being 38:12 identified with us, if you're gonna 38:14 graduate from this university you'll be known 38:16 as the person of integrity, amen. Amen. 38:18 Stop apologizing. Because the fact of the matter 38:22 is Paul points out why we should adopt standards? 38:26 Here's what the devil knows Romans 6 and verse 38:28 16 he says: Do you know that when you offer 38:33 yourself to someone to obey him as slaves, 38:36 you are slaves to the one whom you obey, 38:38 and here's the choice, whether you are slaves 38:40 to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, 38:43 which leads to righteousness? 38:44 There is a system of slavery that people enter 38:47 into and I, I the reason I would said it because 38:49 I look at some of these young ladies 38:50 and young men and they did not start out 38:52 wanted to serve the devil, I don't believe that, 38:55 I don't believe they got and they because they 38:57 wanted to be a slave to Satan. I believe they got 39:00 in there because of the attraction and when 39:01 they got in too deep they did not know 39:03 how to get out? But I want to say, there are 39:05 those who know how to get out? Dr. Yvonne Lewis 39:07 was in there, and she got out came, 39:09 can you say amen? Amen. So, there is a way 39:10 to get out, you can get you, if you want to get 39:13 out I know a lot of people that got out. 39:15 The devil can't keep you, God says, I can save 39:20 you to the uttermost. Amen. I would say, 39:24 and he can save you from the gutter-most 39:25 to the uttermost. Amen. No matter how far 39:28 you're down his arms are long enough? 39:30 But there are those and in this country 39:32 we are possessed with life liberty and the 39:36 pursuit of happiness. Now, we have more people 39:39 that are bored, they want to be happy all 39:41 the time. Well, what they don't know as while 39:45 we're pursuing happiness the devil is pursuing us. 39:48 And this generation is more desensitized, 39:51 they're more morally imbalanced, life out 39:53 of balance, overstimulation, 39:55 we are being swept way by what I call a social 39:59 tsunami call anhedonia, have you heard it 40:02 that before? I just recently learned about it, 40:05 so let me just dazzle you 40:07 with my limited knowledge. 40:10 Anhedonia is the pleasure; it's a disease 40:14 that attacks the pleasure center of our brain. 40:18 Anhedonia simply means the reduced ability 40:21 to experience pleasure, that means basic pleasure. 40:25 The higher levels of stress, the higher the 40:27 levels of stress and excitement the greater 40:30 the demand for satisfaction. 40:32 Think about a drug, the more we get, 40:34 the more we want. The truth is the more we 40:38 get the more we need. Amen. Not that we want it, 40:41 the more we need because a pleasure centers 40:43 demand more to feel the sense of satisfaction. 40:47 When people are thirsty do they drink glass after 40:49 glass after glass after glass because they 40:51 want to, no because they have to, because 40:54 the body demands it and you've got a satisfy 40:57 the urges of the body, the world has so stimulated 41:01 us that we are now locked in on a course 41:03 of trying to satisfy this body that is 41:06 completely been desensitized. 41:08 Look at this graphic for a moment I want to 41:09 break this down very quickly here it is. 41:11 This is something called the Anhedonia process. 41:15 Now, the pleasure center is just painted in yellow. 41:17 And you know it says, low threshold barrier. 41:20 And the barrier there or the, or the things that 41:23 block or inhibit pleasure center it's represented 41:27 by that a little white trying little box, 41:28 you see that? Now, it's a low, it's not blocking, 41:31 so there is a direct line to the pleasure centers. 41:34 Let me, let me describe that comeback to me 41:36 for a brief moment here. When my wife and I 41:38 went to Zimbabwe and also Zambia, 41:42 do you know what children over there 41:44 are thrilled to get a balloon? You try to 41:49 give a kid a balloon over here and tell them 41:50 that's your Christmas present. They'll nail you 41:54 to the outside of the house. Amen. And say, 41:57 died as a result of not giving me Christmas gifts. 42:02 They were excited about, they are rolling, 42:04 if we gave them a little car and to them was 42:07 like a gigantic limousine, you know why? 42:12 Because that country is not capitalistically 42:15 driven and the people there are not insatiably 42:18 and doctrinated and drugged by the 42:20 entertainment that surrounds us 24 hours 42:22 a day, that's why it's good to live in the 42:24 country, amen somebody. Amen. They're still so 42:28 overstimulate look at the next graphic, 42:29 here's the next one. This is now where 42:32 overstimulation starts to raise the barrier to the 42:36 pleasure center due to dopamine flooding. 42:39 Because they're demanding, so it gets 42:41 harder to get to the pleasure center. 42:43 So, what that means is? You demand more, 42:46 in other words, if one cup a coffee 42:48 was good now you need two cups, if one 42:50 song was at volume 5 now you need it at 42:54 volume 8, if you went to one concert, you'll so 42:57 hook now you need to go to 5 more concerts, 42:59 that's why there are people that can party 43:00 all week long because the body like a drug, 43:02 like caffeine or nicotine or anything else 43:05 that is addicted. The body demands more, 43:07 people are hopelessly addicted, they're slaves 43:11 because they've yielded themselves. 43:13 Well, look at this last graphic, 43:14 this is amazing thing. This is the last picture. 43:16 Full blown Anhedonia, only high stimulation 43:22 can now reach the pleasure center, 43:24 that's in the brain. I'm gonna develop this 43:26 even more and I hopefully do a series on this, 43:29 on how this works? You see in America we are 43:33 being thrilled to death that's why kids have 43:41 such a low ability for Godly things, but let me 43:45 even hit you with a bigger bomb that is 43:47 even why Church attendance for basic Bible 43:50 study is so unappealing because it takes 43:57 something greater and more stimulating to get 43:59 your attention. Studying the Bible that takes time 44:03 that means I've got to open the book and slowly 44:07 methodically actually go through this thing, 44:10 where is all the noise, I don't hear any sound, 44:13 I don't hear any drum rolls and no lives and 44:14 no camera, it's not even thrilling that's the point. 44:17 God wants you to think, the devil doesn't want you 44:19 to think, the Church is affected by that, 44:21 that's why many Churches are dying. 44:23 It's hard for people to comeback to Church, 44:25 Sabbath morning and that's it you can't get them 44:27 into building to the rest of the week because 44:29 they are suffering from Anhedonia, they're been 44:32 so thrilled, so stimulated that 44:35 studying the Bible is not attractive. 44:37 He said, well who is given Bible studies 44:39 and they began to base it on who is giving the study 44:41 rather than what's being studied? 44:43 You know, what Jesus gave? But would you say, 44:45 Jesus you know, I mean I really don't want to say 44:47 the Bibles, now I got a show to watch. 44:50 Anhedonia, the Church is suffering from anhedonia. 44:54 Movies now, look at this that's why we expect 44:57 the action on the next sequence of the movie like 45:00 Die Hard 3 it's got to be better than Die Hard 2 45:03 and if Die Hard 4 is worst than Die Hard 3 45:05 we complaint I want my money back. 45:09 Anhedonia, Church is now this is what's happening 45:12 to the Church, that's why I'm glad as the 45:13 Adventist Church is we are deciding to hold the line, 45:17 that's why Churches you go to Churches of the world, 45:20 the music has to be louder and edgier than 45:22 ever before, why? Because that's what the people 45:24 that are in those buildings listen to 45:26 in their spare time. So, you got to have the 45:29 rock band, that's what the Church has to be 45:32 'cause that's what they want? If there's anything 45:34 bought that, are you guys singing hymns still, 45:36 boring hymns, are you serious? 45:41 That's what happening? The Church has been 45:43 sedated so overstimulated, preachers have to out 45:47 wow themselves, they got to preach better than they 45:50 let, preach last weekend, any week that the 45:52 preacher doesn't come and God is fired up, 45:54 oh! He would not good last Sabbath, it's not about 45:56 how fired he up is, is about how true what 45:59 he is saying it? Amen. Stop getting stimulated 46:02 by the deliverer, it's the message. Amen. 46:06 So, we say, oh! He is a good preacher that's, 46:07 that's evidence of anhedonia, 46:10 is his message right? I don't say, 46:13 I like the postman, I say I got my letter, 46:17 I don't just take letters that nice looking postman 46:19 bring, if he gets to my house that's my 46:21 important fact. Stop grading the message 46:25 by the messenger, if it's true you ought to say amen. 46:28 Amen. And we are persistently depended 46:33 on thrills and kicks, got to get the kicks, 46:37 what's the kick, what's the kick? 46:40 Our continual pursuit of high stimulation is 46:43 snuffing out our ability to experience what I call 46:47 genuine pleasures in simple things. 46:51 Look at this text that's why this text is 46:53 so important to me. Isaiah 32 verse 17 it says: 46:57 The work of righteousness will be what friends? 47:00 Peace and the effect of righteousness is what? 47:03 Quietness and assurance forever? Quietness is the 47:08 greatest fear to those who live in pleasure 47:10 palaces like New York City. I go to New York City, 47:12 my sister live in, I think a 20 story building 47:15 about 12,000 people in that building. 47:18 And the moment you get into that foyer, 47:20 you got here in the car or an elevator, you're 47:22 passing by somebody's apartment you hear the 47:24 music going by you got to duck, just in case 47:26 the music blows the doors off. It's hard for 47:29 people that are stimulated like that to come out of 47:33 a place where they've been doped up, 47:35 it's hard for them to come at a Church and just 47:37 actually sit down and listen, 'cause their minds 47:41 have been so, they're like right up here 47:45 and you let them down they crash. 47:46 They have to literally go through a gradual 47:48 process of being detoxified. 47:50 They're like a drug addict. 47:52 And it doesn't take 30 days or 60 days or 47:53 90 days sometimes takes 15 months. 47:56 So, you got to keep on them even when they're 47:57 newly converted you've got to stay on them unless 48:00 they get away because they used to being 48:02 overstimulated especially, if they come from another 48:04 denomination where the music was loud. 48:07 They come here and we got oh! They only got four 48:09 praise things and hardly can really hang in there. 48:11 I've heard the people say that, but brethren it's 48:14 not who is up here. Are you, are you 48:16 singing to the glory of God? Amen. It's not 48:20 what we do up is, what do you do down there? 48:24 Mega Churches have not even helped. 48:26 These 30,000 sea Churches they have to put on 48:28 the show that's why people go. 48:30 So, those people leave Joel Osteen's mega 48:32 Church and come here and he say, 48:34 it's not that exciting, they're not measuring 48:38 by the truth that's why Adventist methods 48:40 are not as effective in America as it is 48:42 outside of America because we're competing 48:45 against all these mega Churches that really are 48:46 just new concert venues, they borrow the 48:49 systems of the world, they borrow the same 48:51 methods the world uses that's why a lot of 48:53 Adventist pastors go to Sunday preachers finding 48:55 out what they do to get people in the building. 48:57 Brethren, if you're not here for the word of God 48:59 then I don't wanna have you here for the wrong 49:00 reason, that's the reason that's, that's 49:02 what's gonna hold you here. 49:03 If I got a sing heavier song next week then I did 49:06 last week just to keep you then you're here 49:08 for the wrong reason. The Loud Praise Bands 49:12 and the Gospel Fests, Rock Concerts are the 49:14 major reason why the stimulation is blocking 49:17 your pleasure center to the point where you 49:19 need more and more and more and more just to 49:22 experience simple pleasure, that's why the 49:25 thrill of victory is quickly becoming 49:27 the what? Agony, agony of defeat, that's why 49:34 prisons have something called they, they call 49:36 solitary confinement, solitary confinement, 49:41 what they call it? Solitary confinement, 49:45 you know why? Because it's quiet. And they know 49:49 that the worst thing to do to a person that is 49:51 always stimulated with noise is to put him 49:55 where he could hear himself, 49:58 it drive him nuts. But what they're 50:00 discovering they take a person from 50:01 Thompsonville and put him in solitary 50:02 confinement we just go to sleep. 50:07 Am I telling you the truth? Amen. 50:08 We like it that way, solitary confinement 50:10 finally I go to sleep. I can't sleep in this 50:13 noisy jail, well my guys sleeping next to me. 50:17 Yep. Am I telling truth? And folk in, and folk in 50:20 big cities think that we are in solitary 50:22 confinement as it is. And God's what He 50:25 said in First Kings 19:12, After the earthquake 50:28 a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; 50:32 and after the fire a still small voice. 50:35 People can't hear the voice of God. 50:37 And some people keep their music up so that 50:39 they cannot hear the voice of God. 50:42 They keep it loud that's why you got to be 50:43 carefully with those any advices young folk, 50:46 take it out sometimes and read God's word, 50:47 so God can talk you, stop letting the music 50:50 industry condition what you're listening to. 50:52 So, the question we've to ask ourselves is 50:53 how do we break the cycle? I'm gonna wind-up 50:55 how we break the cycle? And you're gonna 50:57 be shock that I'm gonna do this in six minutes. 50:59 Lord have mercy stay with me, well I'm ready 51:01 here we go. Romans 12 verse 1 and 2: 51:03 What do we do to break the cycle, we either 51:05 break the cycle or the cycle breaks us. 51:07 Romans 12 verse 1 and 2 here it is: I beseech you 51:09 therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God that 51:12 you present your what? Bodies of living sacrifice, 51:16 holy, acceptable to God, not the music industry, 51:21 which is your reasonable service. And do not be 51:23 conformed to this world, but be transformed 51:25 by the renewing of your mind, start listening to 51:27 the right music, watching the right programming, 51:30 reading the right books, transforming of your 51:32 mind that you maybe able to prove what is that 51:35 good and acceptable and perfect will of God. 51:39 Somebody say amen to that? Amen. 51:40 Romans 13 verse 11 to 14 here's the reason why? 51:43 Here's the reason why? And do this, knowing the 51:46 time, that now it is high time brethren, 51:49 it's high time to awake out of sleep; 51:52 why? For now our salvation is nearer than when we 51:55 first believed. The night is far spent, the day 51:57 is at hand. Therefore make the commitment 52:00 to cast off the works of darkness. 52:04 And to do what? Put on the armor of light. 52:08 Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in 52:11 revelry, look at the whole music industry, 52:13 not in drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, 52:16 not in strife and envy, but instead of putting on 52:19 loud music, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, 52:21 and make no provision for the flesh, 52:24 to fulfill it's lusts. That's what's happening. 52:27 Aleister Crowley sort up a religion that so 52:30 closely mimics Christianity that we 52:32 have become victims, but listen to what 52:34 Ellen White says Testimonies Volume 5 52:37 page 217, here's what God servant says. 52:41 Let me just say you this be, before I read this, 52:43 just recently on a show called, the sing off 52:45 a young group named committed from one of our 52:48 Adventist Colleges. They won the competition, 52:51 let me just send a message to them. 52:52 Young men, if you want to be committed don't sing 52:54 for Quincy Jones and Ludacris, sing for Jesus. 52:57 Amen. That's what commitment is? 52:59 Listen what Ellen White says, Testimonies Volume 5 53:02 page 217 she says: I am filled with sadness when I 53:06 think of our condition as a people. 53:08 The Lord has not closed heaven to us, 53:10 but our own course of continual backsliding 53:14 has separated us from God. Pride, covetousness, 53:20 and love of the world have lived in the heart 53:23 without fear of banishment and condemnation. 53:26 Can you say have mercy? Amen. Grievous and 53:29 presumptuous sins have dwelt among us. 53:32 And yet the general opinion is that the Church 53:36 is flourishing and that peace and spiritual 53:39 prosperity are in all her borders. The Church has 53:43 turned back from following Christ her Leader 53:45 and is steadily retreating towards Egypt. 53:49 That's what Aleister Crowley planned, 53:51 that's what Satan planned and get this. 53:53 Yet few are alarmed or astonished at their 53:58 want of spiritual power. Amen. 54:03 We see the problems, but for a paycheck we 54:06 just stay quiet. For popularity, 54:08 if you're leading out in these college campuses 54:10 and the universities, don't try to be the 54:12 friends of the students, guide them, lead them, 54:16 show them Jesus, you know why? Because if you don't 54:18 give the trumpet of certain sound, when the 54:21 trumpet does sound you got to give an answer for 54:23 why you did not give the trumpet a certain sound. 54:28 So, how do we break away from it? 54:29 Here's the solution. My final text, what do we do? 54:33 I like it when somebody came to me before the 54:35 program and said what do we do? And I said to her, 54:38 you will looking at my sermon you know what? 54:39 You do friends, you make a choice. What do you do 54:41 friends? You make a choice. Joshua 24:15: 54:45 And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, 54:47 choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, 54:51 whether the Gods, your fathers served that were 54:54 on the other side of the river, that was Egypt, 54:59 or the Gods of the Amorites, and whose land 55:02 we dwell, or you dwell, but say with me. 55:04 But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. 55:11 What do you say? Amen. And so, brethren I got to 55:13 wined this series upon, upon, I got to give Jesus 55:15 all the praise, what do you say? He is got, oh! 55:18 I tell you. If you think the music industry has 55:21 the upper hand on celebration 55:23 you wait till Jesus comes. Amen. You won't have to 55:26 pay, every eye is gonna be invited, 55:28 every eye is going to see Him; I want to see Him 55:30 in peace, what about you? Amen. 55:32 And if you think that the movie industry knows 55:33 about special effects you wait till the heavens 55:35 departs, you wait till the rocks cry out to the 55:38 glory of God, you wait till the earth 55:40 sing for deliverance, if you think they have 55:42 effect you wait, you got to get on this side 55:45 to look forward to that because if you're on the 55:46 wrong side, you're gonna run to the rocks and the 55:49 mountains and say, hide us I wanna be running 55:52 to Jesus, what about you? Amen. 55:53 If you think the music industry has all the 55:55 good things as you wait till all the saints 55:57 of all the ages come forth from their grave, 55:59 the perfect pitch. Amen. And raise their voices 56:03 to the Lamb of God. And by the way, 56:04 He's writing the final song now it's called 56:07 the song of Moses and of the Lamb. 56:09 And I pan on singing that song, what about you? 56:12 Together all the saved of all the ages are gonna 56:15 get together and you talk about a rock concert 56:17 we're gonna be singing to the Rock of Ages. 56:20 Amen. I plan on being in that crowd 56:22 what about you? Amen. So, I want to appeal to 56:25 those watching today, I don't know where 56:27 you're in your walk with God, I don't know 56:28 who you are personally, but I'm telling you this, 56:30 don't allow the world to take you down 56:33 the path of destruction, if you got to give up a 56:35 CD for heaven you haven't lost anything. 56:38 Amen, amen. You got to use your voice to 56:41 glorify God, don't even apologize and don't even 56:44 apologize when you give up the music, 56:47 you're not losing anything you're gaining everything, 56:49 what do you say? If you want to know how you 56:51 can do that you can call 3ABN, I'm gonna give the 56:53 number 618-627-4651, call during the week our 56:58 pastors will let you know, how to do that? 57:00 We're here to lead you to the rock, the right rock 57:03 which is higher than I which is Christ Jesus. 57:06 Well, let's bow our heads and pray, 57:08 Father God in heaven, we thank you that 57:09 Your word is a light, You've given us 57:11 knowledge by which we should be faithful, 57:14 help us not to live for our own will not to 57:17 follow Aleister Crowley, but to follow the 57:19 Lord Jesus Christ. In Your name we pray, amen. 57:24 Amen. Friends, God bless you until we see 57:26 you again, be faithful and one day we will 57:29 sing in that heavenly choir. God bless you. |
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